A handful of cabbage was picked up and dumped into the cauldron.
Now it was a great boiling cauldron whose waters rose and fell in a seething white mass.
Scores of large cauldrons of steaming water covered the floor.
The cooking apparatus of that period consisted of a whole glittering array of cauldrons, saucepans, kettles, and vessels of red and yellow copper, which hardly sufficed for all the rich soups for which France was so famous.
We are told in one place of a fine bronze cauldron for heating water which was worth twenty oxen, whereas a few lines lower down a good serviceable maid-of-all-work is valued at four oxen.
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These folds could be related tocauldronsubsidence, and they suggest that subsidence probably began relatively soon after the gabbro and troctolite were emplaced.
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Nothing in the mash of rags can claim to be in its particularcauldron; the original rags are homogenized into grey slurry.
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Alternatively, they may have been preferentially cooked in other containers, perhaps metal cauldrons, which have left no trace in the archaeological record.
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Non-human animals play fundamental roles in the spread of many of these diseases - as reservoirs, as vectors, and as cauldrons for the creation of new types.
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They simply merged back into what was often a chaotic socialcauldronin which anonymity cloaked, to the point of invisibility, those who lived a transient existence.
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No traces of the range were found during the restoration work, but there can be little doubt that it was large, with openings for several rice cauldrons of differing sizes.
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The passionate politics surrounding immigration, social and political cohesion, and imagined threats to peace and prosperity, will pitch such research into thecauldronof political competition and controversy.
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They sit round thecauldronof the market place like a lot of witches.
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We are in the midst of a nasty bubblingcauldron.
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If he takes that course he will raise education out of the politicalcauldronand possibly satisfy all parties which feel aggrieved.
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The last element in the sentencingcauldron, as the catalytic link between all three, is the media.
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Without going into any details it is perfectly clear that it is going to be acauldronof suspicion, civil war and revolt.
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There is a seethingcauldronof emotion in the two communities this week.
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It is an intrepid person who steps into thecauldronof this debate.
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Already we can sniff the malodorous cauldrons of lies and sneers brewing in the thieves' kitchens of apostasy and careerism.
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